漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
虫: insect, bug
Also: temper
JLPT N26 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
6 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
チュウchuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 虫害ちゅうがいinsect damage
- 昆虫こんちゅうinsect, bug
- 防虫ぼうちゅうpesticide
- 害虫がいちゅうharmful insect, noxious insect
- 殺虫剤さっちゅうざいinsecticide, pesticide
- 寄生虫きせいちゅうparasite
むしmushi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 虫むしinsect
- 虫歯むしば(tooth) cavity
- 毛虫けむしcaterpillar
- 水虫みずむしathlete's foot
- 弱虫よわむしcoward, weakling
- 泣き虫なきむしcrybaby, blubberer
Also read キ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)虫 snake; insect + 虫 snake; insect + 虫 snake; insect
Triplication of 虫 (“snake; insect”).
Source: Wiktionary, 蟲 (rev. 92645339), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A wriggly creature moves through the grass! The top part is the head, and the body curves below.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
中
Also built on in (中)
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 蟲 · chóng
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 虫. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 蟲.
- Simplified
- 虫 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 蟲 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chóng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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